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- Read Hennessy and Patterson Chapter 1 (``This section should be
read by anyone who has uttered the words "performance" and "computer"
in the same breath'' -- Robert Bernecky, book review, Doctor Dobb's Journal)
- For the next lecture, use the internet to find:
- a commercial-available 1 TFlop (1012) computer
- an application which achieves 1 TFLOP
- The next segment of the course is a swift review of pipelined CPU architecture